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>Wolfram always impresses me but I can't help but feel like it will never go anywhere. How can it grow without being crushed under its own weight?

Why would it? It's not like a language pays for the storage of libs and datasets it has available.

>As he stated in the video, its all hand crafted data set munging to fit it all together.

It's also a system for symbolic math / functional programming language that's independent from all the "hand crafted data sets".

>I'd love to see a world where wolfrom pulls on datasets out in the wild much like a search engine scrapes web pages but is such a thing possible?

It can already pull anything you want (ingest CSV files, call remote JSON APIs and crunch the data, etc).

It's a regular programming language (lispy even), not some weird concoction.

It just comes prepackaged with an IDE and tons of libraries and datasets.



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